1909-04-01 10.2307/j100289 4 10.2307/j100289 modernphilology 1909 10.2307/432575 Front Matter VOL. VI NO. 4 April, pop9MODERN PHILOLOGYA 2arterly Journal devoted to research in Modern Languages and LiteraturesChicago: The University of Chicago Press Leipzig': Otto Harrassowitz; London: Luzac & Co.SUBSCRIPTION, THREE DOLLARS SINGLE NUMBERS, ONE DOLLAR (Foreign, $3S50) xml-1 p-1 FORTHCOMING ARTICLES J. M. MANLY, The University of Chicago: The Authorship of Piers Plowman. J. P. HOSKINS, Princeton University: Biological Analogy in Literary Criticism. Part II. L. KASTNER, Aberystwyth: The Sources of Olivier de Magny's Sonnets. R. M. ALDEN, Stanford University: The Development of the Use of Prose in the English Drama, 1660-1800. E. H. TUTTLE, Yale University: Notes on the Foreign Elements in Rumanian. W. R. PRICE, Columbia University: Voltaire's Novels. E. Voss, University of Wisconsin: German Pamphleteers of the Sixteenth Century. B. S. MONROE, Cornell University: An English Academy. E. S. 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HAMILTON, The University of Michigan: Theodulus; a Mediaeval Textbook. xml-2 p-2 MODERN PHILOLOGY A Journal devoted to research in Modern Languages and Literatures published during the months of January, April, July, and October Editors JOHN M. MANLY, Managing Editor KARL PIETSCH STARR W. CUTTING FREDERIC I. CARPENTER T. A. JENKINS FRANCIS A. WOOD JEFFERSON B. FLETCHER Advisory Board JAMES W. BRIGHT FRANCIS B. GUMMERE GEORGE HEMPL GEORGE L. KITTREDGE JOHN E. MATZKE CALVIN THOMAS FREDERICK M. WARRENVOL. VI APRIL, 1909 No. 4TABLE OF CONTENTS Biological Analogy in Literary Criticism. I. Variation and Personality John Preston Hoskins 407 Chaucer's Alceste . . . . . . G. L. Kittredge 435 Concerning Fitzherbert's Book of Husbandry . . George L. Hamilton 440 Studies in Germanic Strong Verbs. III . . . . Francis A. Wood 441 The College Element in Hamlet . . . . Edward Bliss Reed 453 Six Notes . . . . . . . . Albert S. Cook 469 Arthur in Old French Poetry not of the Breton Cycle . . F.L. 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Editorial communications and manuscripts should be addressed to The Managing Editor of Modern Philology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. Entered July 13, 1903, at the Post-Office at Chicago, Illinois, as second-class matter, under Act of Congress March 3, 1879. xml-3 p-3 eng misc Apr., 1909 Modern Philology 6 1 10.2307/i217959 4 00268232